Peer-Reviewed Research Database
The science behind the engine
Every compound-food link in CompKitchen comes from a peer-reviewed source. Search 38,144 flavor-relevant papers — part of a 44,648-paper indexed corpus — on aroma compounds, odor thresholds, GC-MS analyses, and sensory studies that power the pairing engine.
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Preprint · Zenodo · CC BY 4.0
Unsupervised Recovery of Food Taxonomy from Volatile Compound Profiles: A UMAP Analysis of 450 Ingredients
Without supervision or human-coded labels, a UMAP projection of 7,464 volatile compounds across 450 ingredients reproduces conventional food categories — and surfaces cross-category molecular bridges that traditional culinary intuition misses.
Johnson, M. C. (2026). Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19719459
More original analyses in queue — Rychlik integration writeup and per-compound OAV audits.
2022
gc ms
Carob's recognized nutritional and medicinal value next to its unique agriculture importance is associated with an array of social, economic, and cultural activities. The carob fru...
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2022
aroma analysis
The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of purified β-glucosidases from <i>Issatchenkia terricola</i> SLY-4, <i>Pichia kudriavzevii</i> F2-24, and <i>Metschnikowia pul...
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PMID: 36294622
DOI: 10.3390/jof8101057
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2022
International journal of molecular sciences
aroma analysis
Melissa officinalis is a medicinal plant rich in biologically active compounds which is used worldwide for its therapeutic effects. Chemical studies on its composition have shown t...
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PMID: 35408950
DOI: 10.3390/ijms23073591
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2022
aroma analysis
Flavor enrichment of sauce-braised chicken creates a popular umami taste and aroma. In order to preliminarily reveal the enrichment of taste and aroma compounds of sauce-braised me...
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2022
Frontiers in microbiology
aroma analysis
Metabolic activity of the microbial community greatly affects the quality of cigar tobacco leaves (CTLs). To improve the quality of CTLs, two extrinsic microbes (Acinetobacter sp....
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2022
Food chemistry
aroma analysis
Five rice cultivars were applied for investigating effect of milling degree on rice physicochemical properties. The first layer had the lowest peak viscosity, followed by the secon...
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2022
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
threshold study
Soy products are rejected by Western consumers because of their green and beany off-aroma. The off-aroma profiles of typical soy products (soy drink and soy protein isolate) were a...
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2022
other
This study compares five types of lamb jerky, namely, CO (without starter culture), PL-4 (with producing putrescine, cadaverine, histamine, and tyramine), BL4-8 (degrading putresci...
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PMID: 35885300
DOI: 10.3390/foods11142057
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2022
other
A new analytical method for the determination of six volatile short and medium-chain fatty acids (acetic, propionic, isobutyric, isovaleric, hexanoic, and octanoic acids) through l...
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2022
aroma analysis
To investigate the general fermentation characteristics of doenjang-meju (a Korean traditional soybean brick), they were periodically collected from eight different manufacturers d...
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2022
Journal of food science and technology
other
UNLABELLED: Anthocyanins are important compounds in grapes and wine and significantly influence their characteristics. Ultraviolet light-C (UV-C) can be used as a tool to induce se...
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2022
sensory panel
In this study, an alternative debittering technique for olives, invented and patented by Prof. Vassilis Dourtoglou, was employed. Olive fruits (<i>Olea europaea</i> cv. Megaritiki)...
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2022
pharmacology
As the oxidation of yak ghee is inevitable and as consumer demand for natural products continues to increase, this study aimed to enrich yak ghee with goji berry carotenoids by mea...
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PMID: 35159520
DOI: 10.3390/foods11030369
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2022
sensory panel
Instant flavor peanut powder is a nutritional additive that can be added to foods to impart nutritional value and functional properties. Sensory acceptability is the premise of its...
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PMID: 35681294
DOI: 10.3390/foods11111544
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2022
Natural product research
gc ms
Ptilostemon is a small genus of the subtribe Carduinae (Asteraceae) that includes 15 species as annual or perennial herbs or small shrubs, spread in the Mediterranean arch, from Cr...
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2022
'MDPI AG'
other
Functional nutrition is deeply connected with healthy lifestyle and sustainable food production, due to its positive health benefits and the use of economically underexplored and n...
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2022
pharmacology
Hawthorn (<i>Crataegus</i>) is a plant of the Rosaceae family and is widely grown throughout the world as one of the medicinal and edible plants, known as the "nutritious fruit" du...
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PMID: 36140986
DOI: 10.3390/foods11182861
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2022
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
other
Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium (CRP) is one of the most commonly used food supplements and folk medicines worldwide, and possesses cardiovascular, digestive, and respiratory protect...
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2022
Journal of food biochemistry
aeda
The effects of Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium (CRP) and grapefruit juice (GFJ) on the pharmacokinetics of omeprazole were investigated in this study. Sprague-Dawley rats were pretre...
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2022
Current nutrition reports
pharmacology
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is epidemic throughout the word. Despite various novel therapeutic opportunities, CKD is still associated with high morbidity and mo...
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Sources: PubMed (US National Library of Medicine), Semantic Scholar, Europe PMC, CORE. Papers are selected by targeted search queries for each ingredient and compound in our database.